Vivian Nixon

Key Topics: U.S. mass incarceration, Intersections of mass incarceration in the U.S. and race, gender, religion, education, and poverty, Social inequality, Racism, Role of religion in society.

Bio: Vivian Nixon is Executive Director of College and Community Fellowship (CCF), an organization committed to removing barriers to higher education for women with criminal record histories and their families. She developed a passion for these issues while working as a peer educator in the adult basic education program at Albion State Correctional Facility in New York.

Vivian is a Columbia University Community Scholar and has received multiple honors including the John Jay Medal for Justice, the Ascend Fellowship at the Aspen Institute, and the Soros Justice Fellowship. Her leadership activities include serving on the Coordinating Committee of the New York Reentry Education Network and co-founding the Education from the Inside Out (EIO) Coalition. She is a much sought after public speaker on subjects related to religion and social justice including mass incarceration and social inequality.

Selected Speaking Experience

The Danger of a Single Narrative at the All Souls Unitarian Church, New York, NY. April 2014.